“Baby of Bethlehem” (also known as “Singing in the Land”) is an African-American spiritual that was also included in the same 1953 volume of Ruth Crawford Seeger’s American Folk Songs ...

Private worship often included "shouts," ecstatic spiritual circle dances ... himself from such blackface minstrel songs, which mocked African American speech patterns and almost universally ...

Clarence Jones started Heritage 49 years ago to preserve the legacy of the Negro spiritual. The African American songs of survival led to other genres we hear today. “The children of negro ...